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Informationen zum Autor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. After receiving her PhD in history at the University of California at Los Angeles, she taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies. Her 1977 book The Great Sioux Nation was the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indigenous peoples of the Americas, held at the United Nations’ headquarters in Geneva. Dunbar-Ortiz is the author or editor of many books, including her acclaimed An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States . She is the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the Lannan Foundation, and she lives in San Francisco, CA. Klappentext A provocative, timely, and deeply-researched history of gun culture and how it reflects race and power in the United States Vorwort Galleys available National TV & RADIO CAMPAIGN: C-SPAN Book TV, Democracy Now!, Tavis Smiley, NPR-Talk of the Nation, Alternative Radio, Pacifica Network stations/shows, Community and NPR affiliate radio stations around the U.S. PRINT CAMPAIGN: LA Times, NY Times, SF Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, New Republic, Wall St Journal, Chicago Tribune, and other major daily newspapers and magazines. We'll send to the trades: PW, Kirkus, Library Journal and Booklist Author will write op-eds targeted to national newspapers. Will pursue first serial. ONLINE/SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN: Will pursue review/excerpts/opeds, etc. to Shelf Awareness, Salon, Slate, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, Tomdispatch, Truthout, Truthdig, Counterpunch, CommonDreams, Z-Net and Alternet. We'll promote it on City Lights' Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Tumblr, blog and web site, and on Wikipedia. Author is active on Twitter and Facebook. LIBRARY MARKETING: Baker & Taylor super annotation ACADEMIC MARKETING: Chronicle of Higher Education, Cultural Politics, Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, Fast Capitalism,In These Times, JAC: Journal of Advanced Composition, Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies, Logos: Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Nonsite,Situations, Social Identities, symploke, Theory, Culture & Society, Third Text, Thought & Action, Transformations, Works and Days Zusammenfassung A provocative, timely, and deeply-researched history of gun culture and how it reflects race and power in the United States Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS Introduction: Gun Love Chapter 1: Historical Context Chapter 2: Savage War Chapter 3: Slave Patrols Chapter 4: Confederate Guerrillas to Outlaw Icons Chapter 5: Myth of the Hunter Chapter 6: The Second Amendment as a Covenant Chapter 7: Mass Shootings Chapter 8. White Nationalists, the Militia Movement, and Tea Party Patriots Chapter 9: Eluding and Resisting the Historical White Supremacy of the Second Amendment Conclusion: History is Not Past Notes Index About the Author ...
